Send your movie questions to FlickChickUPDATE Posteritati Gallery is showing vintage Cary Grant movie posters from February 14 to April 15 readers who live in or around New York city might like to check it out The name of the show Cary Grant The Man From Dream City is taken from a 1974 Pauline Kael essay published in the New Yorker You can read it online Cary Grant The Man From Dream City Part 1Cary Grant The Man From Dream City Part 2And now for something completely trifling Kiss and Make Up 1934 this weeks DVD Tuesday featured film is a short sweet souffl of a romantic comedy that rests lightly on the shoulders of handsome Paramount contract player Cary Grant It pokes fun at such then-timely pop-cultural concerns as fad dieting cosmetic surgery society-girl hijinks serial marriage and shameless cross-platform self-promotion Yes 1934 can you say plus 231a change plus cest la m234me choseIn real life Grant was a transplanted Englishma
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I found it quite appropriate that the theme of tonight’s episode was printed on an old rock T-shirt Chris stole from Lorelai when they were teenagers: Synchronicity. It began the second Lorelai put that shirt on and said she’d never take it off. (Here, let me quote you some of the lyrics by The Police: "Synchronicity / A connecting principle / Linked to the invisible / Almost imperceptible / Something inexpressible / Science insusceptible / Logic so inflexible / Causally connectable / Yet nothing is invincible.")Is it just me, or do those lines explain exactly what’s going on between these three couples: Chris and Lorelai, Luke and April, and Rory and Logan? Each of them is bound together in this episode by odd timing and twists of fate: After 20 years, Chris and Lor are now the married couple settling into the house that, ironically, Luke rebuilt. Sure, there was some back-and-forthing about the flat-screen TVs in practically every room and how they’d need to re...
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Cary Grant was workin' it, fo' sho. A list published in the November issue of GQ names Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest as the most stylish film of all time, meaning the looks it brought to the silver screen went on to have the biggest influence on the sartorial scene. Also making the top 10: Breathless (1959), Ocean's 11 (1960), Purple Noon, 8 1/2, A Hard Day's Night, How to Steal a Million, Blowup, Bullitt and Get Carter (1970). Conspicuously, no Clan of the Cave Bear.
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Question: I remember the show Burke's Law from the '90s or so, but wasn't there an earlier version of it on TV some years before? Thanks.
Answer: That there was, Drew. The original Burke's Law, which starred Gene Barry as L.A. chief of detectives Amos Burke when it launched — he became secret agent Amos Burke in the show's last season, when it was titled Amos Burke — Secret Agent — ran on ABC for two and a half years beginning in September 1963.
If Barry'd stuck to the way he'd been thinking about TV a couple of years earlier, however, he'd never have stepped into the role, which was first played by Dick Powell a couple of seasons before on Dick Powell Theatre. Barry didn't really like TV, and after leaving his previous show, Bat Masterson,
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Question: TVGuide.com's Entertainment News reported that "Nia Vardalos is penning Talk of the Town, a big fat star vehicle for Tom Hanks." Is this a remake of the Cary Grant/Jean Arthur movie The Talk of the Town, or is it a different story with the same title?Answer: I'm thinking totally different story with the same title. All I've heard about the plot of the new Talk of the Town, which My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) writer and star Nia Vardalos is writing from an idea by Tom Hanks, is that it involves a man (presumably Hanks) who's suddenly forced to make an unexpected career change. This doesn't sound at all to me like the vintage dark comedy
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